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Yechiel Michael Barilan is professor of medical education at the Sackler School of Medicine at Tel Aviv University. Nowadays, the once-militant Polish opposition to 1920s Jewish medical students freely dissecting the cadavers of Poles, but rarely the cadavers of Jews, is customarily blamed exclusively on (what else?) Polish anti-Semitism. The author provides valuable information that soundly debunks this blame-it-all-on-Poles standard narrative. He also includes other insights into rabbinical literature.
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Charles Sarolea (1870-1953) was Professor at the University of Edinburgh, and the Belgian Consul in Edinburgh. This 1922 work is head and shoulders above the customary Anglo-American schlock about Poland written today. Because the information in this book is now almost a century old, I trace the continuity of its contents with modern events.
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This 1908 book, written by an American who had lived in Partitioned Poland, is head and shoulders above the usual Anglo-American schlock written about Poland today. It is a mini-encyclopedia on Polish history, customs, achievements, and (yes) shortcomings. As an example of the latter, author Van Norman quips, “Unity is not a Polish virtue. Neither is subordination for the common weal. Everyone must lead.” (p. 25).
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This work discusses many topics, of which I mention a few. There is reference to Jewish religious opinion, notably that in the Talmud. I encourage the reader to look up the passages in the online Babylonian Talmud (halakhadotcom), as I did. It is a rewarding experience.
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This work is largely a response to the then-current Nazi German attacks on the Jewish religion.

The author is internally inconsistent in his apologetic. He dismisses ENTDECKTES JUDENTUM--Eisenmenger’s critique of the Talmud (pp. 15-16), but also approvingly citing Eisenmenger’s repudiation of the claim that Jews use the Kol Nidre to lie to gentiles. (pp. 44-45). In other words, Cohon accepts Eisenmenger when it suites his purposes, and rejects Eisenmenger when it does not.

I focus on three issues:

PUNISHING (EVEN KILLING) A GOY WHO STUDIES THE TORAH: AN EXPOSITION
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This book can be divided into two main themes, and my review is thus divided accordingly:

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PART i of ii. Consider the preeminence of the Judeocentrically-defined Holocaust over the genocides of all other peoples, especially its most modern forms—that of the Holocaust being arrogated the moral lighthouse of all humankind, and the Holocaust being arrogated the gatekeeper to all non-Jewish genocides.
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Author Paul Brykczynski generally writes in a non-strident matter. But don’t let his pacific demeanor fool you. Brykczynski does not take long to show his LEWAK colors to the reader. On the inside-cover page, he expresses admiration for his grandfather Andrzej Pieczynski because, among other things, he “never talked about patriotism”, although (in some vague sugarcoated way), he is supposed to have lived it.
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Author Heller rejects the claim that Jabotinsky anticipated the Shoah. Based on Jabotinsky’s correspondence at the time and thereafter, Heller concludes that Jabotinsky’s August 1938 speech (about Jews needing to flee the soon-to-erupt volcano of Europe) referred to upcoming severe economic boycotts of Jews, not a genocidal extermination of Jews. (p. 253).
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